Which is Worse: Retail Work or Office Work?
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Which is worse? Retail work or office work? Are there any advantages to one over the other?
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Both jobs have pro and cons
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Retail and it’s not even close. Office work typically had better schedules, weekends off and pay is better.
Depends on the company honestly.
Same thing with the trades right
I work in retail and i work from 10:00 to 17:00 most days except on Tuesday when i work from 11:15 to 19:00 and i have weekends off 🤷🏻♀️ i call it a win
Man people are so fake in office jobs
@@emomidget167What company is it? I'm curious
I work in retail and the customers during covid are much worse. We are not out of stock because we don't want to sell you something, everyone is shopping more instead of staying home.
I actually had a customer the other day who had to sneeze , pushed her mask aside and sneezed out in the air! This was an older lady in her 60's probably. Guess she didn't want to get her mask wet? Sooo ignorant.
Gregory Chin - Im honestly starting to think that some people are doing this to purposely spread the virus...
When I worked at a grocery store sometimes I had to be the manager of the department despite being a part timer cause my manager worked there for so long she could make bank only being there 3 days a week, and I remember so many times I actually had everything done and even helped another department, there were times I just hid in the bathroom so nobody would say I wasn't working when I had absolutely nothing to do. so aggravating
Yeah it sucks
Fucking sucks
It’s like that too at my restaurant
We are expected to do the job of multiple people for a single salary, but you really can’t take a break because if you do they immediately tell you to clock out and go home instead
Generally, office work treats employees better and pays them better, plus there is less exposure to abusive customers. On the downside, all it takes is one bad manager to turn office work into hell.
I agree. It's all about the environment, if u have great co workers, work can be fun
Office is usually better unless it's a call center job. Stay away from call centers at all costs!
Noted! o7
Oh call centers are the worst!!!
Anyone whos ever worked in retail knows that 100000% retail work is far far worse than any office work.
My first job was retail and I left as I got tired of it. I've worked in an office and for many years have worked from home. You find when you work from home you do more work due not getting sided tracked by coworkers, but you can also feel isolated since there is no one around to talk to during the day.
I can relate in a lot of ways, I used to work at Sears. It was only merchandise pick up, but I still had to deal with customers on the daily. I am now an owner/operator truck driver. My life has changed in many ways ever since. As you said, isolation does bring a certain level of depression. But it doesn’t amount to the uncertainty that retail brings. And the stress levels are much lower and much different compared to that, usually the stress is mainly from something that I bring onto myself. Obviously I’m on the road, and there are those assholes on the road of course. But it’s much further apart of situations to deal with and it’s very short term. Pay is better, benefits are better, and I am feeling better. I’ve recently been checking out your channel, I dig it. You bring up a lot of agreeable factors. Keep it up man. 👍🏼
What about the hours, no capricious scheduling at an office.
I would say retail depends on the kind of retail and the none retail job depends on the none retail job. At USPS your pay is universal so if you start out in a none career job it will be 17 something dollars and that is the case in Wyoming or if you live one state away in Colorado. Once you get career you get a 4 dollar raise and you get yearly raises until you cap out at 32 dollars but there is COLA raises which can increase that amount. If you live somewhere like Wyoming where minimum wage is still 7 dollars a hour you will be making a lot at USPS. If you work somewhere like Walmart or Home Depot good luck getting any money though. I got out of retail and worked in the trades and it was very stressful not knowing if you will be at the same location, be laid off due to lack of work etc.
I almlst had to go back to retail cause i glt laid off from an office job and went almost two months with no one accepting me thankfully i got hired by a really good office job at two weeks into working at lowes i felt such a relif lift from my shoulders
Damn, what office job do you have where they have a gym or they basically could care less if you were on the phone or Internet browsing when everything is done?
I work in a similar office environment, but I am a bit more of an internal worker that is involved with data analysis and such for coworkers to use. Our place doesn't have a workout area (can walk around, but usually only part of your lunch break), and while it's fine to quicky check your phone or something, it's almost expected you do something else once you get your tasks done even if no one knows what else needs to get done at that time.
Of course, I would take this office job I have over going back to work more than two months at Target again, but your place definitely seems a lot more laid back than ours. Hell, we aren't even allowed to listen to music through headphones while we work.
Honestly what office work do most people do? I would LOVE to work in an office and do office work but i dont know what those job titles are. I hate retail with a passion and want to get out. Any one know what office jobs titles are so i can look up to apply to?
I've worked retail for 15 years and I love August Burns Red.....Nice shirt!
I work at Kroger doing night stocking shifts and it really is not that bad. I'm alowed to listen to music and nobody gives a shit as long as I get my stuff done. No costumers. Night shift so it doesn't conflict with my university schedule. Also no god awful uniform.
Fanta got that quarantine hair.
Nice vid.
I had smarter co-workers in retail compared to my first white collar job after retail
Office work is comfy as fuck and I can’t understand people who think it’s even remotely comparable to retail
As someone who has done both, retail is 100% worse, without question! As an office worker, my pay is better, my benefits are better, I have better hours, I have weekends and every major holiday off, I get a week off at Christmas, and I dont have to deal with asshole unreasonable customers.
Having said all that, I think everyone should work either retail or food service at least one time in their Iives. It does help you develop people skills, you learn how to deal with hostile or confrontational situations, and it makes you appreciate your job situation that much more when you do get out of that line of work
They're both soulless, but I've found an office job that avoids a lot of the traps because the nature of the work means assignments are constantly changing. That helps a lot, though it has disadvantages too.
I find one key thing for me is I don't have to ask permission to go to the restroom or get some water. That alone makes the office work a lot more bearable.
Yeah I forgot about that. Gotta announce over the head set that you're stepping off of the floor. That was demeaning.
Got cussed out today because we were sold out of toilet paper. Fun times.
the dirty looks I got from people especially the fat fucks riding the carts smh.
i don't get why people let this bother them, i literally laugh about this shit. it is not your fault and it never will be i would laugh in their faces and say its funny that they think its my fault. then tell them that they should go take it up with management. people take way to many things personally that aren't even in their control. just let the looser walmart shopper make a fool of himself and go home.
As if you control toilet paper production, delivery schedules or your responsible for other shoppers buying habits...I guess it's your fault for not knowing in advance and reserving it for their random ass. Idiots
@@MsPokemonsoulsilver this is the most logical way to look at the situation but if you don't want to be at your job in the first place any insult or comment with aggression behind it can be infuriating. Mildly irritating things become rage inducing at times, especially in situations where you have to cover someone because no one else can, you're working a double, 6 to 7 days a week, etc. All very common things in retail.
It has to be Walmarts customers?!?
Definitely trying to get out of retail. Had to go back to school to do so. Been working retail almost 17 years and it's really wearing on me.
Retail isn't the biggest reason I deal with suicidal ideation, but it sure as hell comes close.
I'll take an office job over retail. Retail? NO THANK YOU.
I feel like it's very circumstantial. A retail store with products that you have an interest in and good management/corporate in a not bad area would certainly be better than it's some of the worst office jobs, right?
When I owned my own store it was the size of a Gamestop. I was really close with my employees and people that worked around my store in the mall. My store has been closed for almost 20 years, but I am still in contact with most of my employee's.
Maybe it is why you closed
It has to be retail. You can say what you want about office work, but at least office work has far better pay, better work schedule, time off for holidays (especially for Thanksgiving and Christmas which can be extended time off), and your not constantly being berated by some Karen/Ken who feel that they are somehow better than you and you have to stand their and take it with a smile as if it’s somehow mostly your fault.
About customers - it's like that line in the movie Clerks - "this would be a great place to work if it wasn't for the customers."
Retail with phones has been a mixed bag with for me. At Kroger I was allowed to be on my phone and listen to music, but at my current job selling electronics I have been yelled at for using my phone just to look up some inventory to see if I could bring product out. I don't understand why we would have an app on our phones to check that if we would just be yelled at for it. I can't wait to graduate college and get out of retail. Office jobs seem better since you get treated like an adult instead of being treated like a toddler in retail
Wasabi Slayer office jobs tend to have more drama with miserable coworkers who bring their problems at work
You honestly can’t win. Get a job, pay bills and taxes. Watch Fanta and die. That’s pretty much it.
@@devinpeirce7152 Yeah everything has its downsides, still seems better overall than retail. Could just depend on the company and postilion too
I worked 17+ years at Walmart.I am happily retired and I have to honestly say I will never work in retail again.Youre treated like trash by both customers and management.I will never send anyone to that place for a job.Go to school get a degree get a decent job with a good work environment.
I have worked in an insurance office for four years. It's the best thing ever. I worked in retail and fast food for about five years, and it was torture. I'm never going back from office work.
Both has its major headaches, but after doing retail and food service as well as office setting jobs, I’ll take the office any day over retail
Office jobs are better, but make sure to exercise. Unlike retail you are not required to move boxes around all day.
Nurse's aid in health care is more back breaking than roofing and landscaping. More soul crushing than retail more stressful than office work. Done all those jobs they all suck.
I have worked in an office for 25 years (not all at the same office) and I worked retail in my younger days. I much prefer the office, although the first one I worked at was incredibly abusive.
It was an independently owned company, so the owner was accountable to no one and acted accordingly. He had the cluelessness of Michael Scott and the belligerence of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glenn Ross. Even his own kids were unable to work for him. Because of his verbal abuse, we went through six general managers in two years. When I declined the opportunity to become number 7, he turned up the heat on me and eventually bullied me out of the office. This was my introduction to office work and was worse in many ways than most retail jobs I had.
As far as my retail experience, working at a grocery store wasn't bad most of the time. Yes, some customers were jerks some of the time. Customers were worse in entitlement and attitude at On-Cue (a smaller version of Musicland), and downright horrible at Domino's Pizza. Working at a liquor store was a mixed bag. Most people were chill, but one woman was a hardcore, bloated, puffy-faced alcoholic who would buy two HANDLES (1.75L bottles) of bottom-shelf vodka every week (so she was drinking almost a gallon of vodka a week). She would berate us if it was at the full price of $11.99/bottle instead of the sale price of $9.99.
That said, when I eventually retire, I think I would be happy working maybe two days a week at another grocery store, just for something to do. I would maybe even do that now during the evenings, if I ever decide I need a second job.
Retail is worse by far. In the office, i work a lot more hours, and it affects me after work more, but I finished school so I could leave retail.
I think working at Target sounds quite a bit better than Walmart. Superior stores imo
Even your average consumer knows that Target is better
As a target employee I definitely prefer it here over Walmart, but it’s still awful
you described working in office pretty well. i am the youngest guy in my office. everyone basically have family - wife kids etc. we have basically nothing in common.
It was a curse for me. Double shifts almost every day, (From 10 pm to 2 pm/next day and was suppose to be back by 10 pm) people quitting almost every day. (I was working in a location near a strip club and a stadium inside the city. The customers were toxic. Some did defend us but the randomness of the stadium crowd made it impossible. Then overnight horny people trying to get beer last minute before the states cut off time. The worse nights were when the stadium and the club was opened. 500+ easily. Oh yeah i forgot, overnight we lock the doors but I have to walk around the store to get ALL of their items. If they change their minds I gotta do more walking. ) It felt bad for me to quit because I knew what they were going through and I could do nothing. I couldn't stay there because one day, when my life was threatened, I felt no fear. It was at that moment I knew I was officially dead inside. I took one year off to dissolve all of that negativity I consumed for 1 year. I saw the dark side of the world working at that convenience store. That was the job my dad did to put money on the table and all i did was eat, shit and piss for 30+ years under his roof. I want him to retire soon and get his health right. So I have to finally get up and do what I need to do. I promised myself THIS year will be the moment I finally get my independence AND able to support my parents. (I'll give them the choice later. grandkids or support)
Good luck!
Keep goin' dude!
The worst thing about the retail is the people, and also the best thing about retail is the people. If you like people, if you're a social person, having an isolating office job might rot your soul and melt your brain, but if you're more of an introvert it will be more like an occasional slight depression that goes away after a few days when something good happens in your life and you realize how much worse it could all be. If you like people you can't get a normal office job. Go into HR or go into the medical field. Go into journalism or child care or teaching or something along those lines. Loneliness has literally been found to shorten the lifespan of people by YEARS, so seriously, make sure you're cut out for that kinda work before you do it. Some people just are and some people just aren't.
the only thing i miss is having no responsibility in those jobs and no bills. i could be fired and it didnt matter
I was in retail for 25 years, the last few at Walmart which was torture. Retail used to be great! I’ve been working in distribution centers for the last year and it is absolutely hell, way worse
I work in a Target distribution center. 17.50 an hour and three 12-hour shifts (every other week or so I work a day of overtime) and the work is pretty physical demanding. Every 6 months for 3 years you get an additional 60 cents for each hour worked plus some basic coverage/benefits. Plus, we get an extra $2 per hour due to the pay differential we were given "for [our] contributions in this unprecedented time" which will be lasting a few more weeks. For an uneducated and unskilled 21-year-old, I can't complain much.
I worked Factory one day
And quit
Never again
Its really difficult to make friends after your mid 20s... as you enter your 30s you can't even relate to people your age because they look like your parents when you were a kid, so its wierd hanging out with parents if that makes sense, you drift into this state of isolation and lack of socialzing , until people start a family not be be lonely
I am not going back to retail, I am in a warehouse now and it is far better than retail. Now my body is paying for it and I been considering finding an office job.
Did 5 years of McDonald's I heard and seen things about co-workers and managers. One time a female manager did it with a male crew member in the freezer, camera saw everything.
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big up Gary. Good topic
Ive done both, retail is way worse. Youre right tho about it being really hard to meet new people in an Office
I found I got on better in casual relationship and friendships in the office settings, especially the older I got, because the retail and store environment, I had mostly people who were very young, or were yes, middle age but had a lot of problems and basically have not moved past the teen and 20s mentality lol,
Office work is easy peasy. I only work with 5 other people at night though. Since Covid Ive been remote though.
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#1 rule of retail: LOOK BUSY😒
Have done both for multiple years, office work is better. It still sucks, but you get paid more, and less customer interaction.
Starting a new job in 2 weeks. Going to be doing tech support, but I'll be working from the comfort of my home.
I honestly think I will enjoy it, at least more than I would a job I have to leave and go to.
@Chrono Giro Terrible, I got very depressed and only lasted about a week
Turns out I'm actually on the spectrum, and can't work well with really rigid schedules.
I do UA-cam now, and am much happier doing this then working a "real" job.
Thanks for asking btw
WHAT exactly do you do at your office job? Sounds pretty nice. I work in IT and my "customers" are my co-workers lol so ironic the people who think they are dumb are actually not, and the ones who annoy the piss outta me are the ones who think they know everything and are dumb AF 😣
Work is work and it sucks. With that said, I work in a situation where I'm Retail and my team works in the same building as our office admin team so, office workers.
I'm here to report from direct experience that Retail is harder in every way possible. It is physically harder, mentally harder, and by far the worst one emotionally harder. The emotionally hard part has got to be the worst because it is something that doesn't need to be there but exists anyway because of the attitudes people have towards Retail workers, and it's not just the customers...
Because my team works in close proximity to our office team we really get to see what they think of us
To our office team we are losers who never made anything out of our lives and who are inferior compared to them. This attitude allows them to talk to us like children, dump extra or unwanted work they should be doing onto us, ignore our opinions and ideas, and openly critique or even make fun of us to our faces or to each other. Even the building is set up so that Retail is on the ground floor and admin is above us. Keep in mind after I've said all this that our Retail department out preforms our admin sales department quarter after quarter and recently even our CFO admitted that our Retail side is essentially floating our business right now. So you would think a raise or a promotion or even just slightly better treatment would be earned by that performance, absolutely not. After all we are Retail people, indicating that we are deficient and inept and not dependable despite years of service actually demonstrating the opposite is true. To sum up, yes Retail is worse. The primary thing that makes it worse is the second class citizen status you take on the second you step into the Retail roll regardless of performance and accomplishments, it's the kind of thing that is corrosive to the soul and after 25 years I can tell you it will hollow you out.
There are a few things I miss. I miss most of my customers and a few friends. I think that's really it. Now I'm in a lab, I'm an essential worker, we have face marks, better parties/food(not so much now). Pay is.... Honestly a lot better. Almost doubled. I work harder and I have more responsibilities but it's furfilling. No micro management, no Karens. I sometimes have to respond to email on average once a week at my house but that's no problem.
But I've worked retail my whole life other than last year so I get the whole retail aspect. Been in this job for 7 or 8 months. Retail would be soooo much better if they had set schedule. I know that's a bit impossible but that random schedule and clopenings were the devil.
About the gym, I would be so exhausted after work with no consecutive days off that I couldn't even join a gym. Hell I couldn't afford it, first of all lol. But my sleep schedule was absolutely jacked up.
And yes, I can look at my phone at work, make personal calls, look up hotel info on our computer, pay bills. Hell, sometimes I can leave! In retail is BETTER not look at my phone. So many more dumb rules in retail that makes your life miserable for no reason.
Office job, no question. Office jobs are absolutely soulless
MrDerelict_Insurgency _ I agree with you
Consider being a retail manager then?
The mention of getting certifications was pretty eye-opening. I hadn't even thought about that sort of thing! What are some general or starter kind of certs you would recommend?
Yes, I’m curious as well
Depends on what you want to do? There are lots of free training courses on HTML, CSS, and other web languages on Lynda which is owned by Linkedin I believe.
@@FANTAVISION Thanks! I actually don't really have a strong direction in what I want to do, but I have some background in digital marketing. I'll look into your recs as well as some stuff I saw on Hubspot
@@LovelessYayaoi I also really recommend this. It doesn't even have to be certifications specifically, but online education in general can really be a game-changer. If you're interested in software development (and I'd imagine digital marketing too) there's a huge community and many free resources like freeCodeCamp which I recommend. I was stuck in retail for a few years, but dug myself out by doing the above.
I'm a part-time florist at a grocery store. I have great coworkers, supervisors/managers, and most customers are respectful. Pretty laid-back work environment, but people still work hard because most people don't mind or even like their jobs. Customers can get pretty awful when it comes to flowers--think old ladies screaming at you because the flowers aren't 'fresh enough', or you didn't wrap them the way they wanted--but it's a fairly negligible problem all things considered. I want to get out of the retail world eventually, but for the time being it's a pretty decent position to be in.
I had a part-time office job at a college before COVID-19 hit and I got laid off. I loved that job. Like you mentioned, I also had a lot of time to help further my career. I'd look through job listings, do research, work on my portfolio... plus I really liked everyone that I worked with there. No customers to deal with; only students who were pretty understanding (and even apologetic) when you couldn't help them. I know that my managers wanted me back as soon as the school reopens and my services are needed again, but God knows how long that'll be.
I'm lucky that I don't have to take any additional hours at my grocery store job even after getting laid off from my office job. I could never work at a grocery store full-time... I get exhausted enough after just three days. Really hoping to get my office job back once everything settles down and get in there full-time. It's a much happier work environment for an introvert like me.
So, yes, office work definitely beats retail, but not all of retail is absolute hell.
I was surprised when you mentioned you get hate comments from this channel. This channel is awesome.
Well thanks Sarah!
I want my weekends off. Been working six days a week for the last decade
Dude get out! Hope you found a better job after!
18 years in a Mc restaurant since I was 16.... Got stories on corporate 🙄...Been in a call center the past 3 years... Definitely "better" but friends and family have learned I had a crazy schedule and now that I have time my social life is struggling.... The beer bug moved work from home permanently..... No comment lol.. "merry Christmas" love the tales
Fanta. You are my Favorite UA-camr by far. Wish Camelot would do another collab w/you. Great video, great points.
What job does he have now??? What do you do and how did you get out of retail??? Im trying to escape!!! Help a sister out
Not being hassled over dumb shit is what I cannot wait to not have to deal with anymore. Im a supervisor, and I admittedly don’t really like most of the other managers. They try to get in my personal business, and I’d prefer to just stay coworkers. They make our brand their whole personality, and I don’t, so it bothers them that I have a life or something. Im also pretty sure they’re envious that I go to school and have a future outside of our store. I can tell by side comments they’ll make about my education. They think I think “I’m better than them” or something, I don’t know.
Specifically there is this one guy who I admittedly can’t stand. He’s a total snitch who tells our boss ANY thing you say that can remotely be considered “bad” about the business. He’s also weird as hell, he’s 27 and straight up speaks and acts like he’s 15. Also, this is just me being petty, but he’s a total pussy. I’ve seen him cry several times over nothing, one time because a medium sized box half full of socks hit him in the leg (yeah, really). Was really hard to contain my laughter. Point is, as you can see, he’s extremely unlikable.
Anyway, I don’t like him, but I’m cordial with him and still get all my shit done. I don’t compromise business at all, and actually had better analytics in 2019 than everyone other than one guy (he’s actually the only other manager I like). The problem is, like I said, it hurts their little feelings that I don’t join in to their little cliquey group, so I’m constantly targeted for the most asinine shit. I swear to god, one day this weenie came back from lunch one day with two other managers, and he asked me how business was going so I told him in a perfectly normal tone “Yeah not bad man, but we are a little short staffed today.” So he told my boss that I was “irate” they went to lunch. I wasn’t and literally was not referring to them leaving at all lol. Long story short, it turned into this whole gigantic thing where I had to clarify what I meant, and I got blamed for the whole thing because he “perceived that I was angry and it’s my job to change that.” Lol I guess according to my boss, slander and libel are bullshit, and whatever people say about you is always your fault!
I graduate here soon and can’t express how much I can’t wait to work with professionals who actually act like adults and won’t be dealing with idiotic high school drama shit like this anymore.
Retail is actually fun and interesting, at least the stocking and inventory part is. The customers and over buying is what makes it hard as hell.
I work at Large Orange Hardware Store. I have been doing it for 7 years now. I have a Bachelors degree in wildlife biology. Not many people give me flack for my job.
18:14 nothing is worse than not having enough to do and having to look busy!
I can relate to both…
Sadly, I’ve had it rough, quit my office job and I now find myself working Retail as a first time.
I don’t know how to feel about it which is why I searched: “why do I feel weird working retail?” And your video came out.
I mean, after feeling miserable at my last office job, to me Retail should be feeling better, but it is making me feel lost with myself and my career goals.
And I say this because my Retail teammates, managers and customers are pretty amazing, understanding, and patient.
In contrast my last office job as sales and customer service manager had amazing teammates but I couldn’t talk to them if it wasn’t for work or during break, officers and VPs that were never satisfied and constantly relieving their stress on us, and customers that were complete asswholes and scammers. I also related to the fact that most office people have different lifestyles than your regular 20’s young adult.
It probably is due to the nature of sales, because I worked in management for other company as architectural design manager and it was so much better. It was the best, it featured everything you mentioned good about office, but sadly they were a small office struggling to pay its employees.
Compared to sales office, retail is best by far. The team is truly great and the store is always busy filled with kind customer which allows me to focus on the present moment. And compared to architecture office, Retail is barely alright. And even though I am coming most recently from architectural to retail it still so weird to negate yourself. Actually in sales office I felt like I rented myself to the company, but once again in retail I feel like I rented myself and my soul to the store.
I identified the most with your explanation of how you can have multiple stress relieving methods at office work, but in retail, you have to fake it through, you have to put on that vest and erase yourself to be the company’s image. I believe that explains why I feel not miserable but shitty, I feel like I shouldn’t be faking anything but rather be that way already. Also the fact that every 15 min something reminds me of home time is passing by me and I am still working retail with no luck from my job hunt, which is extremely difficult to del with the fact that you shouldn’t get too comfy as Rtail should only be. Temporal Job
I am not sure if this makes sense, but your video did, thank you for sharing
Being able to listen to music and do whatever “as long as you get the job done” in an office job...
Yeah that depends heavily on your boss, some are cool, some try to micromanage you and make you put your phone away
I worked in an office and retail. I hated both. They are both soul sucking and make you miserable. I am in a trade now and much much happier. Times go by much faster I make great money and enjoy the sense of accomplishment after seeing my completed work. No boss breathing down my neck either.
I used to walk about a bank and we would fuck around all the time and I agree that retail needs to get rid of the phone thing. We had computers for transactions, so it wasn't a big deal.
Office 1.56 million percent. In the office I have 1 or 2 bosses.... retail. Every customer is my boss.
I wouldn’t miss incompetent coworkers who don’t have the best organizational skills for the job making your environment hell. Feels like babysitting
im in my 20s rn and theres ZERO people my age working/teens in retail. just a bunch of old people
I worked in retail for years. I got on with Frito Lay in 2018 and it was one of the worst jobs by far in my retail career. Being a vendor made every store I went to feel like hell. The receivers hated us vendors, management did too and our bosses never supported us. I wouldn't wish that job on my worse enemy. And the customers still looked down on us like we were less than them. Also, even though the pay was more than your typical retail job. It did not justify the stress I went through.
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Beautiful callback. xD
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I've never worked an office job, but I can for sure say it sounds a lot better than working retail.
There's pros and cons to both. I've never worked in retail, but I did work in food service for 2 years and a warehouse for 6 years. I've been working in an office for the past 8 years. What I do miss about food and warehouse work is when the work day is over, you punch out and forget about it all until your next shift. As a salaried manager now, I don't get to do that. I prefer the perks of the office environment (better pay, more comfortable , privacy etc.) People don't really care what you're doing so long as you get your work done.
Working retail now with this pandemic its so exhausting, you need to make sure that people walk in to the grocery store wearing masks, and man oh man they're stubborn.
I'm from Portugal and they recently lifted emergency status on the country, summer is coming and I'm from the south and people behave like this is all over since we are not on maximum alert status, and I'm so afraid that we're gonna have a 2nd stage of infections
At least you get paid a fair wage in an office job.
That's unfortunately not true at all :/
@@FANTAVISION My brother gets paid 45k a year right out of college. That's like 3 times more than retail and the job is far easier.
Lucas Pataky just to sit on his ass and stare at a computer screen that's a good deal
@@devinpeirce7152 Yeah exactly
I get paid 10$/hr and I work in an office
I had an office job (well a call center job) working for Comcast, I started out in Bilingual Retention where customers would yell at me over the phone (in English and Spanish) because they wanted to disconnect their services for (insert x reason here) and I had to try to save them. I was in Retention for like 5 years, the managers kept making the goals harder to achieve each year so that they could reduce the commission paid to employees each year. After 5 years in Retention Comcast decided that Retention wasnt profitable enough and moved everyone from Bilingual Retention to Bilingual Inbound Sales where I still had to sell customers extra services (for existing customers) but I also had to create new accounts as well AND I had the added stress of receiving calls that WERE NOT SALES CALLS coming into my line and those counted against the metrics that the company set for us even though we had no control over those calls.
I worked for Home Depot too as my first job out of Highschool, it was crappy hourly pay (like $8-$10 an hour) and the raises they would give each year would be for like $0.10 and if you do really well and pass all your metrics you get a $0.25 raise. The pay was pretty crap and there were no bonuses or commission but at least I didnt have to worry about sales goals.
Do office work
Yes, I’m working at a retail store, the drive there is 4 minutes! Lol and Customers always ask me why I’m working there, that I’m too good to work there, to “glamorous” 😂🤣 lmao I’m not saying that shit to sound cocky. It always makes me feel like shit when they say it😔 I NEED money and I’m just trying to earn my degree 😭
Fantavision wearing some August Burns Red merch. Hell yeah! It’s one way to get you through a stressful day at work.
Office jobs win hands down, in every aspect.
Andy: Good morning just want to see how your week was. I just wanted to let you know your are welcome to come to my bbq this weekend.
Fanta: hey you, can you please leave me alone. You are distracting me. If i want bbq ill buy it.
Andy: Sorry i annoyed you with my friendship. I'll just go over here and shut up
Fanta: 😖
Lol not at all how the office works where I'm at
YES! I've wanted to see this comparison for a long time. I just never asked the question. Thanks Gary, whoever you are
You are welcome
Lol my current commute is a roll of the bed 😂 same I don’t miss the traffic even tho it’s still kinda bad when I do go out.
Try being an inventory manager at a big retailer. It’s fun and challenging work. You people need to develop basic skills and get good at something. Get off your ass and get a job
You know, I actually can just wander off and go outside as long as I'm on a break. Right around the building there is a grassy strip facing a neighborhood with an above ground manhole. I usually eat at the manhole and play my Switch when it's decent out and come back refreshed. Nobody coming and demanding I work on my break, no awful music, no sweltering breakroom, nobody watching soap operas on their phone, no stale air, just 30 minutes of zen. I could probably even take my 15s and just pace up and down the strip or dead-lay on the manhole and sunbathe
This was a very interesting video, Fanta! I work at a library so my job is neither an office job nor retail. It’s a unique setting so I’m always interested in hearing how other people in more common settings navigate work.
How many hours do you sit and use social media in this library?
@@edresmn7869 None! It’s a very busy place but when I do have down time I tend to read or write.
10+ years in hotels/F&B, gets rough, but pay is better honestly. Could never work a job where I sit all day and don't get free food. Weekends are subjective honestly, ever go to the beach mid week - no traffic, no crowds, no headache.
Some offices are hellholes too. If you're stuck doing call center work or if the people working there are either assholes or make it a point to dump the crap work on "the new guy". I've experienced it before. It varies more based on the company and the people 1 has to work around mainly.
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There's nothing wrong of having a retail career as long as you are moving up and making a decent salary.
So about walmart and the whole not allowed to talk thing. For overnights in the last year. They have only one manager overnights. You need two managers to wright people up, so he can't do that. We have a girl that works here, and she is so slow at stocking. Takes the whole night so stock one pallet. He pairs her up with productive workers, the progress is still slowed to almost a halt. All because she just talks. I've gone to the habit of timing how long she stands to talk whenever I see it. The longest was a full hour and 27 mintues. We had a 1647 peice truck to work that night. She's never been told to shut up and work.
you have really pretty features
This is also true for fast food!
Never worked in in rental. Office jones are boring. It’s all about law enforcement. Ever day is complete different. :)
Retail u get the worse of both world. Because managers have a office / Gm. :so they experince office work and retail sakes in one
No doubt, retail is hell. Office work is just a little better.
For myself personally.
The best job I've ever had...Private security guard.
It truly is the perfect occupation under the right circumstances. Especially if you land a decent late evening or overnight shift
on a locked down site. Most times, there's no one to bother you except maybe a skeleton crew you barely see
The supervisors have gone home for the day.
You are basically left alone for the most part. All you do is monitor cameras and do the occasional building round and nowadays,
Most places have good Wi-Fi so you can entertain yourself for most of the time.
Almost zero stress and an easy paycheck.
I love my job.
Retail is actually fun and interesting, at least the stocking and inventory part is. The customers and over buying is what makes it hard as hell.
The Google Analytics bit hit home. However I took my 4 days off per week during my old retail job to learn those skills and put on resume. Hell my new office job just told me to learn Google Ads when our Amazon seller central went down.